My Favourite Character Is My Favorite Character

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For my favorite character I chose Beth Revis mostly because her books made me start to wonder all the things we don 't know in life. We don 't know how many stars there REALLY are out there, we can make a very good educated guess and simply say "a lot" but we truly don 't know. While reading her books, it really made me start to consider all the "what if 's" in life. There 's lots of things out there that we either don 't have enough research on or just don 't want to find out. What if I am in a cyro chamber right now and I am actually dreaming and waiting to wake up to see that I am on a ship taking me to a new planet. Her books make me live everyday of my life differently, and I have yet to regret reading one word of her books.

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Such as; Amy, and how she always manages to get out of them. She was almost raped on a couple different occasions and someone was always there to help her and I started to think about what I would do if I were to be in a situation like that and how I or the people around me would handle it. Amy had to go through losing people that she loved throughout these books, which is never easy to let go of a part of you. When I read these books, it was around the time when my mom had passed away, and when nothing else was helping me this book had. All the struggles Amy was put through, I felt like I could relate to them and it brought me out of my black-hole. As crazy as that may sound to relate my life to a non-fiction/sy-fi book it was somehow relatable and why I wanted to write this essay about this author. I would love to meet this author and just have a deep conversation about what made her think of all these crazy situations you could only dream about and how she constructed a book about all of this. It 's just unfathomable to even think about meeting someone with such a creative and perspective mindset because you don 't meet people like that every day of your

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